Sculley expresses regret over how the incident a boardroom battle between the two men over marketing strategy developed into one of the defining moments in the history of the personalcomputer industry.
But Microsoft argues that the release of the new version of Windows is critical not only to the company but to a personalcomputer industry seeing one of the worst downturns in its history.
The battle between local storage and shared storage has a long history, back to the very beginnings of the personalcomputer industry, when small computers with local storage began to replace dumb terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers.